State Trooper Mike Kleissler helped save the life of a construction worker injured by a chop saw on the Garden State Parkway in Lakewood on Wednesday.

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Ryan Jenkins was lying down on a Garden State Parkway construction site with a gaping wound in his chest that went down to his breast plate. He was losing blood quickly and his life was slipping away, when New Jersey State Trooper Mike Kleissler showed up and saved his life.

Jenkins, 31, of Manchester, had accidentally cut himself Wednesday afternoon with a chop saw while working on the construction site at mile marker 91.7. Kleissler arrived and applied QuikClot, a surgical pad that can clot blood quickly and help staunch the bleeding.